Golden Horseshoe Postcard Club
Toronto. The Postcard Show for the Golden Horseshoe Post Card Club. are also selling vintage images this year.
Click here to see full details courtesy of our Programme Director Les Jones.
The show is at the Dundas Lions Club Memorial Hall in Dundas, Ontario near Hamilton and less than an hour away from Toronto.
. Bell Canada sent me a note on August 30th, 2016 suggesting I grab a phone or camera and take a picture (video). The picture/video must be taken September 10, 2016 and uploaded to CTV (see here for link and details). The submitted videos will be combined and shown on CTV as part of Canada Day next year.
It was interesting that we were advised to use our phone or alternatively a camera to take the picture/video. How times have changed. Not only will amateurs submit the footage, but they will most likely use a phone to do the job.
My little iPod Touch has both picture and video capability. The tiny lens is a 35mm equivalent. More and more I find myself using the camera for casual photos, uploads to messaging and emails, recording price data at a store, design details, etc.
As they say, “the best camera is the one in hand, not at home…”.
Toronto. The Daguerreian Society is arranging two NYC tours this October 19th and 23rd coincident with their annual Conference.
Click here or on the icon to see the tour times, dates, and details.
PHSC 25th cake at Kodak Heights in 1999
Toronto. Last weekend saw the last remaining building at the old Kodak Heights carefully moved a couple of hundred feet to allow Metrolinx to build a new foundation. CBC also showed the move which used special electrical trucks and wheels moving a slow eight inches per minute.
The new foundation will become the St Dennis station on the Eglinton LRT. Once built, the building will travel back over the new foundation to become part of the Mt Dennis station.
When Kodak lost out to the digital revolution, all but building #9 housing the auditorium, museum and front entrance, were demolished. Building #9 suffered graffiti and internal damage. It was totally gutted before being moved this August. Continue reading
Leica M6 – Click camera for Show Flyer
Toronto. Member Gary Perry has been running the Camerama shows for many years. Here is his notice on the show next month:
Please be advised of our next camera show is coming up on September 25th. It will be held again at the Toronto Delta East Hotel (2035 Kennedy rd & 401). The show will run from 9:30am – 2:30pm. Show Flyer is attached [click the camera icon at left].
Parking is FREE!
Here are the location details:
Delta Toronto East (Kennedy Rd. & 401)
2035 Kennedy Road
Toronto, Ontario M1T 3G2
Hotel Phone:416-299-1500
For Directions: www.deltahotels.com/Hotels/Delta-Toronto-East
Ethel “Jane” Cain courtesy Site Point
Toronto. Thanks to Alex Walker and Australia’s Sitepoint Design for this note about early voice powered UI systems. In 1936 the first automated talking clock called TIM was created in the UK. Ms Ethel (Jane) Cain was the first voice of the clock from 1936 until 1963 – winning the audition of some 15,000 UK Postal employee telephone operators.
After Apple’s ads and the Big Bang Theory TV comedy show everyone knows about Siri and her marvellous ability to find information you request of her by voice.
Sitepoint was recommended to me by my eldest daughter as a source for good modern reference books on topics related to programming and the web.
GTR Station Allandale (Barrie) Ontario c1910
Toronto. Our programme chairman, Les Jones, sent me a request to announce the Postcard and Image show coming next month in Dundas, Ontario near Hamilton. A few years back Ed Warner and I attended the Toronto Postcard Club show up at Humber to display some old cameras and answer any questions. I bought a few photo postcards at the show.
Here is the notice from Les Jones for the show next month:
Attention IMAGE DEALERS/Collectors
PHSC members are invited to participate in the next Golden Horseshoe Post Card Club sale, selling vintage images. This will be the first time that anyone other than postcard sellers have been allowed to participate, and there is very limited space.
SUNDAY, September 25, 2016
Dundas Lions Club Memorial Hall
10 Market St South, Dundas. 10am-4pm.
Post Card dealers are being specially asked to bring real photo postcards and any vintage photographs they have acquired. Cost is $80 for 8’ table with a back-up table behind. Application forms are available from Les Jones, 416 691-1555 or lesjones.covershots@gmail.com. Continue reading
courtesy Sylvia Garza
Toronto. The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business for Wednesday, August 24th showed a nice graph of the exponential growth of web sites since the World Wide Web (WWW) was created 25 years ago.
My thanks to Sylvia Garza for the birthday announcement icon which she posted on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the WWW.
When we joined the web just over 20 years ago there were a minuscule number of web sites. Today that number well exceeds 800 million on its way to over a billion sites. Happy Birthday indeed to Mr Tim Berners-Lee’s wonderful creation!
Daguerreian Society Pre-Conference Symposium in NYC
Toronto. Our Journal Editor Bob Lansdale sent me an email last month on July 13th announcing a special Pre-Conference Symposium on October 20, 2016 in NYC.
The message is from the Daguerreian Society’s Business Director, Diane Filippi. The Conference title is “How the 19th-century Formed the Basis for All Subsequent Art Photography, Including Contemporary“.
The title is quite a mouthful – both members and non members are invited to attend. You can click here for the notice and full details.
Dave Tinder byDoug Aikenhead
Toronto. Last month on July 20th Bob Lansdale sent me this note he received from Cindy Motzenbecker of the MiPHS.
“Our good friend and photography collector Dave Tinder passed away peacefully early this morning.
“His major work, the Directory of Early Michigan Photographers, was published in 2013 on the website of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan and is available to all at http://clements.umich.edu/eadadd/tinder_directory.pdf.”
Dave is shown in the above photo taken recently by Doug Aikenhead.
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